Sometimes success comes in ways you don't expect.
My mum was raised Jewish, my dad is very scientifically minded, and my school was vaguely Christian. We sang hymns in school. I liked the hymns bit, but apart from that, I can take it or leave it. So I had lots of different influences when I was younger.
I didn't have any pets growing up.
Sword fighting is just as fun as it looks on the screen.
No one wants to be with a girl that your mother would pick for you.
I often talk with other actors about that time when you've just finished a job, because I think you do take on the characteristics of some of the characters you play. Sometimes it can be a great thing and sometimes it's a bit haunting because you're not quite sure how to leave it on set. My dad talks about it as being 'de-personalised.'
I only remember the end of my dreams, like waking up at a steering wheel, or falling.
I want to take advantage of any popularity I have.
I'm probably a little too uninhibited.
I swim a lot. I swim most days.
Never agree to say or do anything that isn't you.
I'm not really an animal person.
I always looked really young for my age. And once I hit 23, 24 and 25, I was then allowed to play the cool 18-year-olds and stuff.
You still get these waves of doubt that come over you, for example, when you get a bad review or you accept a part and think, 'Oh, God, what have I just accepted? I can't do that.' I don't think that's something that will ever go away in me.
I think every film actor secretly wants to be a rock star as well; just that part of the job which requires the extrovert in you. Even if you've become an actor because it's your way of hiding in plain sight, there's still part of you which has that craving.
That's the thing, when you play younger characters they're always less casual. You're hungrier or more naive. Those things wane in time.
Jeff Bridges is one of my favorite actors in the history of ever.
I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.
There are plenty of people in the world who have tried to be rock stars and have not gotten there.
When I was at school, I was in choirs more than anything else, from a very young age, about 9 years old. And then I started taking drum lessons.
